Grades, attendance bigger keys to future success than test scores

HYDE PARK — Grades and attendance are much bigger indicators of success in high school and college than test scores, a new University of Chicago report says.

In a report released Thursday, the U. of C.'s Consortium on Chicago School Research said it tracked 20,000 Chicago Public Schools students in fifth through eighth grades and found that standardized test scores don’t add much to the picture of a student if the student’s attendance rate and grade point average are already known...